Digital tools can play a powerful role in shaping how we approach learning and instruction. This digital backpack focuses on tools for use after instruction, with a focus on guided and individual practice and assessment tools. The ways in which you might incorporate these tools will depend on your curricular goals and learning outcomes; despite the powerful nature of technology, the impact of effective instruction cannot be overstated. Broadly, this collection of resources is rooted in the framework proposed by the Universal Design for Learning (UDL; Rose & Meyer, 2002). The three main tenets of UDL are to provide students with multiple means of (a) expression, (b) representation, and (c) engagement.
Designing curriculum with the UDL perspective, students should be provided multiple ways by which they can express their knowledge and understandings so that we are better able to determine the extent to which they have met learning goals. Similarly, by communicating the information we wish to share with students in multiple ways, we provide students with additional means by which they can acquire the knowledge and skills we wish to convey. Finally, UDL emphasizes the role affective dimensions play in learning. Engagement can be enhanced through curricula that focus on collaboration and communication, and provide choice and autonomy to students in authentic activities relevant to their lives. Our compilation emphasizes an array of technologies that are in keeping with the core values espoused by the Universal Design for Learning.
Resources compiled by:
Andrew Hashey & Toni Mixon
Doctoral Students
Dept. of Learning & Instruction
SUNY Buffalo
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Digital tools can play a powerful role in shaping how we approach learning and instruction. This digital backpack focuses on tools for use after instruction, with a focus on guided and individual practice and assessment tools. The ways in which you might incorporate these tools will depend on your curricular goals and learning outcomes; despite the powerful nature of technology, the impact of effective instruction cannot be overstated. Broadly, this collection of resources is rooted in the framework proposed by the Universal Design for Learning (UDL; Rose & Meyer, 2002). The three main tenets of UDL are to provide students with multiple means of (a) expression, (b) representation, and (c) engagement.
Designing curriculum with the UDL perspective, students should be provided multiple ways by which they can express their knowledge and understandings so that we are better able to determine the extent to which they have met learning goals. Similarly, by communicating the information we wish to share with students in multiple ways, we provide students with additional means by which they can acquire the knowledge and skills we wish to convey. Finally, UDL emphasizes the role affective dimensions play in learning. Engagement can be enhanced through curricula that focus on collaboration and communication, and provide choice and autonomy to students in authentic activities relevant to their lives. Our compilation emphasizes an array of technologies that are in keeping with the core values espoused by the Universal Design for Learning.